Inta
Инта
Town[1]
Inta water tower
Inta water tower
Flag of Inta
Flag
Coat of arms of Inta
Coat of arms
Location of Inta
Map
Inta is located in Komi Republic
Inta
Inta
Location of Inta
Inta is located in European Russia
Inta
Inta
Inta (European Russia)
Inta is located in Arctic
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Inta
Inta (Arctic)
Coordinates: 66°05′N 60°08′E / 66.083°N 60.133°E / 66.083; 60.133
CountryRussia
Federal subjectKomi Republic[1]
Founded1942Edit this on Wikidata
Elevation
50 m (160 ft)
Population
 (2010 Census)[2]
 • Total32,080
 • Estimate 
(2018)[3]
25,444 (−20.7%)
 • Subordinated totown of republic significance of Inta[1]
 • Capital oftown of republic significance of Inta[1]
 • Urban okrugInta Urban Okrug[4]
 • Capital ofInta Urban Okrug[4]
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata[5])
Postal code(s)[6]
169840–169849Edit this on Wikidata
OKTMO ID87715000001
Websiteadminta.ru

Inta (Russian: Инта́, Komi: Инта) is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia. Population: 32,080 (2010 Census);[2] 41,217 (2002 Census);[7] 60,220 (1989 Census).[8]

History

Inta was founded around 1940 as a settlement to support a geological expedition to explore coal deposits and projecting of mines. The city and a separate forced labor camp (Intalag) was built by deportees and political prisoners working in the coal mines of the Pechora coal basin.[9]

The city's name is in the Nenets language and means 'well-watered place.'

During the Soviet era, a "corrective labor camp", Intalag, was located here.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with two urban-type settlements (Verkhnyaya Inta and Kozhym) and twenty rural localities, incorporated as the town of republic significance of Inta—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[1] As a municipal division, the town of republic significance of Inta is incorporated as Inta Urban Okrug.[4]

Transportation

It is served by the Inta Airport and the Kotlas–Vorkuta railway line. Inta is situated on the banks of the river Bolshoya Inta.

Transmitter

At Inta, there is a CHAYKA-transmitter with a 460-meter tall guyed mast, which is the second-tallest structure in Europe.

Notable people

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Law #16-RZ
  2. ^ a b Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  3. ^ "26. Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c Law #11-RZ
  5. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  6. ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  7. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
  8. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.
  9. ^ "Inta". vle.lt. Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija.
  10. ^ "Vladimir Tsyplakov at eliteprospects.com". www.eliteprospects.com. Retrieved December 2, 2023.

Sources

External links

Media related to Inta at Wikimedia Commons

Administrative divisions of the Komi Republic
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